喜樂美語

Picture a low sound rolling in from somewhere else: thunder behind the hills, a heavy truck under the window, a stomach in a silent classroom. It is not loud and it is not sharp — it is deep, and it lasts, and it usually means something is on its way. The word is rumble with -ing on the end, and that ending is doing the work: the sound is still going. English then hands the same picture to people. When a group is unhappy but has not said so openly yet, what you hear first is rumblings.

可以想成一陣從別處滾過來的低沉聲音：山那頭的雷、窗下開過的大車、安靜教室裡的肚子叫。它不大聲，也不尖銳，就是低、而且拖得長，通常還代表有什麼要來了。這個字是 rumble 加 -ing，那個 -ing 正好留住「聲音還在響」的感覺。英文接著把同一個畫面借給人：一群人不高興、但還沒攤開來講的時候，先聽到的就是 rumblings。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 rumblings

意思相近

roarmutteringsgrowlgrumblesboomcomplaintsthundermurmurs

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

rumblingadj

  • 1

    Deep- and slow-sounding.

    • rumbling discontent
    • His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.

rumblingnoun

  • 1

    A muted sound of complaint or discontent (often used in the plural).

    • The rumblings of the masses precede the crumbling of the state.
  • 2

    A deep low noise.

    • The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop.
    • The rumblin' from distant shores sends me to sleep / But the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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